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🚾Water Closet Emoji

Tagged bathroom, closet and lavatory, 🚾 water closet sits in Unicode's Transport Signs group inside Symbols. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F6BE.

What 🚾 water closet means

Wayfinding pictograms lifted from airports, stations and public buildings, which is why they read as instructions rather than as pictures. ♿️ is the International Symbol of Access and now stands for accessibility in general online, not just ramps. The passport, customs, baggage and left luggage signs turn up in travel threads, and the toilet symbols mark facilities on venue maps.

Unicode tags this one bathroom, closet and lavatory and files it under Symbols → Transport Signs.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F6BE`
HTML hex	`🚾`
HTML decimal	`🚾`
CSS	`\1F6BE`
JavaScript	`\u{1F6BE}`
Python	`\U0001F6BE`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDEBE`
Rust	`\u{1f6be}`
Swift	`\u{1F6BE}`
PHP	`\u{1F6BE}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%9A%BE`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 9A BE`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DEBE`
Base64	`8J+avg==`
Decimal	`128702`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

bathroom
closet
lavatory
restroom
toilet
water
wc

Appears in these collections

How to type 🚾

Windows — press Win + . and search “water closet”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bathroom”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f6be and Enter.
HTML — paste 🚾.

How 🚾 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🚾Apple
🚾Segoe
🚾Noto
🚾System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🚾 water closet emoji mean?+

🚾 is the water closet emoji, tagged bathroom, closet and lavatory. Wayfinding pictograms lifted from airports, stations and public buildings, which is why they read as instructions rather than as pictures. ♿️ is the International Symbol of Access and now stands for accessibility in general online, not just ramps. The passport, customs, baggage and left luggage signs turn up in travel threads, and the toilet symbols mark facilities on venue maps.

What is the Unicode code for 🚾?+

water closet is U+1F6BE. In HTML that is 🚾, in CSS \1F6BE, and in JavaScript \u{1F6BE}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🚾 emoji added?+

water closet got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🚾 water closet.